Question to the Department for Transport:

To ask the Secretary of State for Transport, what recent assessment his Department has made of the level of (a) ownership of electric vehicles and (b) availability of charging points in each nation and region of the UK.

Since 2020, Government has committed £2.5 billion to continue to support the transition to zero emission vehicles, with funding to offset their higher upfront cost, and to accelerate the rollout of chargepoint infrastructure.

The Department’s most recently published data concerning the level of (a) ownership of electric vehicles and (b) availability of charging points in each nation and region of the UK is available at each of the links given below:

(a) Licensed ultra low emission vehicles by local authority: United Kingdom:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/1046001/veh0132.ods

(See VEH0132b_BEV for Battery Electric Vehicles and VEH0132c_PHEV for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles)

(b) Electric vehicle charging device statistics: April 2022: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/electric-vehicle-charging-device-statistics-april-2022/electric-vehicle-charging-device-statistics-april-2022